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Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute, at the Washington Foreign Press Center Briefing on “Arab Americans and the Middle East Policy in the 2008 U.S. Elections,” Thursday, November 29, 2007 – Transcript. Related State Department links on Role of Minority Groups in the 2008 Elections
GPO Access: “Named after Senate Parliamentarian Emeritus Floyd M. Riddick, this Senate document contains the contemporary precedents and practices of the Senate. An appendix contains suggested forms for various procedures, e.g., offering motions or filing conference reports. It is updated periodically by the Senate Parliamentarian. More than one thousand precedents have been researched, analyzed, and …
Awareness of Security Freeze Legislation and Use of Security Freezes by Consumers Age 18+ Research Report, Jennifer H. Sauer, M.A., AARP Knowledge Management, Neal Walters, AARP Public Policy Institute, November 2007 “All but eleven states have enacted Security Freeze laws designed to protect consumers from identity theft. These laws give consumers the right to block …
“The Scherer power plant in Juliette, Georgia, was the top CO2 emitting power plant in the US in 2006 at 25,300,000 tons of CO2 (20th highest in the world), with other plants in US Top 100 list.” “The Drax power plant in Selby was the top CO2 emitting power plant in the UK in 2006 …
Press release: “The Commission has issued a study, 2007 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration, its third annual report on the state of ethanol production in the United States, as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. On the assumption that U.S. fuel ethanol is a relevant market, the report concludes that the market, when …
Anabolic Steroid Abuse: Federal Efforts to Prevent and Reduce Anabolic Steroid Abuse among Teenagers, GAO-08-15, October 31, 2007 Digital Television Transition: Questions on the DTV Converter Box Subsidy Program and a DTV Inter-Agency Task Force, GAO-08-297R, November 19, 2007 NASA: Agency Has Taken Steps Toward Making Sound Investment Decisions for Ares I but Still Faces …
House Government and Oversight “Chairman Waxman today released a draft of an internal FDA guidance that would allow drug companies to use journal articles to promote potentially dangerous uses of drugs and medical devices without prior FDA review and approval.” Letter to FDA Commissioner von Eschenbach from Chairman Waxman: “I have obtained a copy of …
Press release: “The Division of Privacy and Identity Protection of the Commissions Bureau of Consumer Protection has issued a summary of information it has obtained in preparation for an upcoming FTC workshop on private-sector use of Social Security numbers (SSNs)…In July 2007, FTC staff invited interested parties to comment on the issues surrounding private sector …
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM – OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, By Month, October 7, 2001 Through November 3, 2007
DHS OIG FY 2008 Annual Performance Plan (PDF, 101 pages – 1.3 MB) – New 11/30/2007
Center for Immigration Studies, Immigrants in the United States, 2007 – A Profile of Americas Foreign-Born Population, November 2007, Steven A. Camarota. “This Backgrounder provides a detailed picture of the number and socio-economic status of the nations immigrant or foreign-born population, both legal and illegal. The data was collected by the Census Bureau in March …
“In preparation for this years World AIDS Day, December 1 2007, the Kaiser Family Foundation would like to highlight several new resources that may be of interest, including updated HIV/AIDS fact sheets and web tools, and developments in some of our global public education campaigns designed to raise awareness about HIV.” [Link to resource guide …
